(via Our First Bit of A Look at the Super Girls of Lauren Faust’s Super Best Friends Forever)
A Love Poem For Girls Who Read
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“The reasons brainstorming fails are instructive for other forms of group work, too. People in groups tend to sit back and let others do the work; they instinctively mimic others’ opinions and lose sight of their own; and, often succumb to peer pressure. The Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns found that when we take a stance different from the group’s, we activate the amygdala, a small organ in the brain associated with the fear of rejection. Professor Berns calls this “the pain of independence.” — The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
“Students said the banned books were seized from their classrooms and out of their hands, after Tucson schools banned Mexican American Studies, including a book of photos of Mexico. Crying, students said it was like Nazi Germany, and they were unable to sleep since it happened.” — Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors | the narcosphere
Dream posts suck, but when you have a disturbing dream involving a beloved sit-com family, you have to share it. This is almost as disturbing as the masturbating Uncle Joey dream.
Last night I…
“You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.” Carrie Brownstein” — Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen in “Portlandia” : The New Yorker
Because you asked: How I moved I Will Dare to a new host -
Warning, about 99.99% of you are going to want to skip this one. But for that teeny tiny percent of people who have self-hosted WordPress websites, this might come in handy.
So Bakiwop asked how I…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) -
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Nobody sees the negative stereotypes -
It’s ironic that a book about bullying can be so full of cruel, negative stereotypes that it verges on bullying itself.
Lucky Linderman, the teenage protagonist of A.S. King’s young…